Score-board



L. MATTHEWS.

SCORE BOARD.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-30. 191s.

Patented Aug. 12, 1919.

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SCORE-BOARD.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 12,1919.

Application filed August 30, 1918. Serial No. 252,086.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LESLIE MATTHEWS, a citizen of the United States, residing at Plainfield, in the county of Union and State of New Jersey, have invented new and useful Improvements in Score-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a simple and relatively inexpensive score board for keeping tallies of games such as those played in bowling alleys and the like and where ordinarily the record of games is kept upon tally sheets having a left hand column of spaces for the names of the participants in a game and block spaces, ten in number extending from the main spaces, in which the scores for the several plays of the different participants are indicated. The objection to the ordinary form of score board is that if a portion of a sheet or chart has been used, leaving for example three or four spaces unused, and a party desires to use the board and consists of a number of members greater than the spaces which are vacant on the sheet already partly used, it is necessary to detach the partly used sheet which is then wasted so far as the unused portion is concerned. It is the object of the present invention to provide a continuous score board, or one having a continuous sheet of which the portion may be used consecutively to any desired extent without waste or without necessitating removal for the reasons above indicated.

T 0 this end the invention consists in the construction, combination and relation of parts hereinafter set forth, it being understood that changes in the form, proportion and details may be resorted to within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a perspective view of a score board embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view of the same;

Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view showing the mounting of the extremities of the rolls in the bearing members provided for their reception.

Arranged within a frame 1 of substantially rectangular form and adapted to be suspended in any suitable way against a wall, partition or other upright object is a table or platen 11 which is traversed by the intermediate portion of the continuous strip or web 12 reeled at one end upon a roller 13 and at the other end upon a roller 14, said rollers being terminally mounted in bearing elements which in turn are carried by the frame. Above the space occupied by the continuous sheet or web is a head board 15 of which the spaces are consecutively numbered to designate the corresponding score spaces on the surface of the sheet or web.

In the construction illustrated the rollers upon which the Strip or sheet or web is wound, the same being reeled from one to the other as the same is used, are provided with terminal cross sectionally irregular studs 16 for engagement with sockets 17 in rotary bearing elements 18 mounted in the side bars of the frame 10, so that when one side surface of the sheet or web has been used completely, the rollers may be reversed and the opposite side of the sheet may be used. The bearing elements preferably at the right hand side of the frame at the top also carries a sprocket wheel 19 traversed by a feed chain 20 which also passes around an idle pulley or sprocket 21, so that in adjusting the sheet or web for a new game it is simply necessary to draw down upon the exposed front side of the chain to the desired extent to reel the used portion of the sheet upon the upper roller and expose an unusedportion of said surface for receiving the score of the new ame. Inasmuch as the exposed portion of the sheet all of which may be unused or clean, is of the complete area of the table or platen, it is possible in employing a device of this kind to utilize every portion of the length of the sheet or web and thus provide againstthe waste which is incident to the use of the separate sheets as in the present practice.

A further advantage of the above described device resides in the fact that it avoids entirely the necessity of printing record sheets for use as tallies, other than to provide the spacing lines thereon, and the record serves as a permanent check on the games which I frame provided with upper and lower sets of bearing elements revolubly mounted in the side members of the frame, one of the said bearing elements being provided With a sprocket wheel, and an operating chain traversing said sprocket wheel and accessible adjacent to the plane of the frame, upper and lower rollers provided with terminal studs for engagement interchangeably with sockets in said bearing element, a continuous sheet 10 or Web terminally attached to said rollers and reelable from one to the other, a head board supported by the frame above the upper roller and provided with designations relating to spaces on said sheet or Web, and a table or platen carried by the frame between said rollers and substantially in the plane thereof for supporting the intermediate exposed portion of the sheet or web.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

LESLIE MATTHEWS.

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